Sentence examples for by setting a ceiling from inspiring English sources

Our simple solution was to incorporate that objective into the algorithm by setting a ceiling on the number of inspections within each area.

Switzerland's central bank surprised markets by setting a ceiling for the Swiss currency of SFr1.20 against the euro in an attempt to keep it down.

It began by setting a ceiling of 30 caballerías (one caballería = 33 acres, or 13.4 hectares) on individual holdings, with a maximum of 100 caballerías if economic operations required such a scale.

Though the other companies said they were also pushing the government for permission to publish more detailed data, they said the aggregate numbers were useful to control speculation by setting a ceiling on the number of requests.

But an election looms around then, so clever Treasury officials will find more ruses to disguise the wreckage of the rules for example, by setting a higher debt ceiling for the new economic cycle.

Congress could redress the balance, and restore consumer protections, by setting a reasonable federal ceiling on interest rates and allowing states to adopt stricter limits if they want to.

He caused anger among welfare campaigners by scrapping an increase in child tax credits that will result in an additional 100,000 children dropping below the government's poverty line, and was accused of provoking unions by setting a two-year 1% ceiling on public sector pay increases – well below the current inflation rate.

The Swiss National Bank responded by setting an exchange-rate ceiling; the franc has since weakened.

The cap-and-trade plan, which calls for reducing California's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, sets a ceiling on climate-warming emissions by the industrial, electricity, transportation and other sectors that will gradually be lowered over time.

Indeed, she has helped me understand the interplay between law and finance, and helps many minority students by setting an example: breaking the double ceiling of gender and ethnicity in the American legal profession.

The New Start treaty signed by Mr. Obama and Russia and approved by the Senate in 2010 set a ceiling of 1,550 deployed warheads for each country but administration officials now argue that nothing prevents the president from cutting further on his own authority as commander in chief.